The best thing about the News is the letters!

The best thing about the News is the letters’ page!  There is another point of view that I have uncovered that Katie Hudson does need to hear even if it distresses her – and I’m sorry that it does.

Katie represents the commonly held misconception that the UK’s oh so ethical foreign policy around the world in supporting the Western friendly governments, for example,  in Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan is all good and perfect.  If only the Arabs would accept that we know best for them and not fight us, all would be well with the world!

I heard the BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘A Point of View’ with historian David Cannadine last year.  Even I was shocked to hear that Churchill supported our government’s attack on Egypt over the Suez  Canal in 1956.  We killed many more Egyptians at that time than they killed of our brave boys.  Even America condemned the joint French, British, Israeli invasioin of Egypt.  Churchill said something to the effect that once begun, our attack should have continued until eventual success!

This was exactly what America did try and do in Indo China between 1959 and 1975  and with our moral support and our armaments that slaughtered many times more men, women and children defending their homeland than the 58,000 dead American soldiers and airmen.  "Harold Wilson, over Vietnam, gave public backing to LBJ but never deployed troops."  (source not recorded)  However, Churchill’s advice (above) ended in ignominious defeat for the freedom loving, democratic, ‘never surrender’ nations of the US/UK and the West!

Equally unacceptable, was our full support “with intelligence information and material aid” (George Baker in 2006, US Sec of State at the time) to Saddam Hussein when he did our dirty work for us by attacking Iran in 1980.  We then double crossed him by soon selling our Western weapons to Iran, as well, to keep the killing going for a full eight years and a million young men slaughtered – and when neither nation gained anything whatsoever!  In addition, the CIA, I understand helped this man and his Baath party gain power in 1968.

It seems that we double crossed Saddam again when we attacked Baghdad with “shock and awe” in a targetted assassination to kill only him on the 19 March 2003 when he was fully co-operating with the UN weapons inspectors who needed time to finish their job – that they never did finish, of course.

Perhaps, we are not so ethical and honest and as full of integrity that we like to think!